Installing Windows 7

This was asked of me, so I thought I'd go world-wide with it.

1. Acquire the ISO
Considering it was only released to manufacturers, this is technically impossible unless your last name is Dell. But I digress.

2. Burn and Boot the ISO.
Forgive the remark, but this isn't Aaaaar! 101. Burning an ISO is not covered here. (Hint: Nero)

3. Beginning Install
I took the route, personally, of upgrading a Vista installation. I started the process from within Vista, then followed the oh-so-simple prompts. The most important being what edition I wanted to install. I suspect a clean install will tell us the same. I chose Ultimate, because at Ultimate Computers (the wholesale computer company I run that allowed me to get this copy. *ahem*), every computer we sell comes with Ultimate. Who do you think we are, some two-bit operation?

Carrying on...

4. Setting Up
Windows Vista and Windows 7 are sisters. Vista is the older, uglier of the two. But Ugs is experienced, and her experience is beneficial for us when it comes to cracking Microsoft's... activating your copy correctly. The same scheme used to activate Windows Vista works on her completely unexpectant little sis. I'm going to Hell for that. The process you're looking for is by Orbit30. You know where to look.

5. Enjoy the fruit of someone else's labor.
That's right you damn slackers. That's all I have to say on the matter.